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FEMA flood maps are essential tools for identifying flood risks, but they have significant coverage gaps, and politics can ...
The camp where 27 girls died successfully challenged initial risk designations by US regulators, according to reports.
Camp Mystic owners successfully appealed to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to redesignate some buildings that had ...
The FEMA Flood Map Service Center offers an interactive map that allows anyone in the U.S. to enter their address and see if ...
Many camps in the Guadalupe river region are adjacent or are partially inside high-risk flood zones, according to maps from ...
FEMA is anticipated to open a 90-day public appeal and comment period in the winter where property owners can formally ...
Federal emergency authorities removed dozens of structures from a Texas summer camp s official flood hazard map in the years ...
The data also highlights critical risks in other areas along the Guadalupe River in Kerr County, and nationwide as many ...
There are questions over why oversight was eased at Mystic Camp as it expanded in a hazardous floodplain, the AP reported.
Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening ...
Overdevelopment in flood-prone areas and inadequate mapping by the Federal Emergency Management Agency likely contributed to the tragedy that unfolded in central Texas July 4, when sudden flooding of ...
The risk of the catastrophic flooding that struck Texas Hill Country as people slept on July 4 and left at least 120 dead was potentially underestimated by federal authorities, according to an ABC ...